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André Gorz
Also known as Andre Gorz
Austrian born French philosopher and journalist (1923-2007)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 February 1923
- Died
- 22 September 2007
- Works
- 68
Top works
- Penser l'avenir
- Capitalisme, socialisme, écologie
- Brief an D.
- Critique de la division du travail. Texte de K. Marx [et autres] choisis et présentés par A. Gorz
- Strategy for labor
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 9
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to André Gorz, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~16 min read
Article
Gérard Horst ( French: [ʒeʁaʁ ɔʁst]; né Gerhart Hirsch, Austrian German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯hart hɪrʃ]; 9 February 1923 – 22 September 2007), more commonly known by his pen names André Gorz (French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡɔʁts]) and Michel Bosquet (French: [miʃɛl bɔskɛ]), was an Austrian-French social philosopher and journalist and critic of work. He co-founded Le Nouvel Observateur weekly in 1964. A supporter of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist version of Marxism after the World War II, he became in the aftermath of the May 68 student riots more concerned with political ecology.
In the 1960s and 1970s, he was a main theorist in the New Left movement and coined the concept of non-reformist reform. His central theme was wage labour issues such as liberation from work, the just distribution of work, social alienation, and a guaranteed basic income.